Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As the storm worsened, Serafin ordered five trailer trucks to leave for their destinations ahead of schedule. Then he and his staff chartered three Learjets for Sunday in case the blizzard knocked out the regular commercial airlines that normally carry the films of the editorial pages. It did. When the...
U.S. Travel Service. Created in 1961, it operates offices at home and abroad and has a mixed record of inducing foreigners to visit the U.S. In the last fiscal year the service spent $ 14.1 million on advertising, travelers' aid and other programs. Contending that it has served its purpose...
Occupancy rates nationwide have jumped from about 64% in 1975 to more than 72%, and many top hostelries in big cities are doing even better. First-class hotels in Dallas were almost 80% filled last year. Week after week in Houston's Southwest Galleria district, the Galleria Plaza and...
As for the Carter Administration, its own record revealed at least the appearance of confusion and paralysis. The Administration was so preoccupied with the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that it practically forgot about Iran. Then the White House brought in an outsider, former Under Secretary of State George Ball, to do...
When he died of pneumonia last week at a wizened 91, his perennially profitable Hilton Hotels Corp. owned, managed or franchised 185 hostelries in the U.S. with revenues of $372 million in 1977. (The overseas subsidiary, Hilton International, was sold to Trans World Airlines in 1967.) Though Hilton's...